Events for Stony Brook Cancer Center

2025 Research Symposium
Advancing the Frontier:
Innovations in Cancer Research

Please join us for the Stony Brook Cancer Center’s Annual Research Symposium, an inspiring day dedicated to celebrating groundbreaking advances in cancer research and fostering collaboration across disciplines. This event will spotlight the innovative work driving the future of cancer prevention, diagnosis, and treatment.

Who Can Attend: Internal Faculty, Staff, and Students Only 

Date: Friday, July 18
Time: 18 am to 4 pm

Location: The Waterview at Port Jefferson Country Club, Port Jefferson, NY

Register: https://cancer.stonybrookmedicine.edu/node/2625

Block the Sun Not the Fun
Free Skin Cancer Screening on the Boardwalk at Jones Beach
Screening is appropriate for those 18 years and older.

Free Giveaways! Educational and sun-safety promotional items.

Date: Saturday, July 19
Time: 11 am - 2 pm
Location: Jones Beach State Park, Parking Lot 6
Look for the Cancer Center Tents
Questions: COE@stonybrookmedicine.edu

14th Annual Comiskey Park Charity Music Festival
Featuring all-day live music, games, food, and raffle baskets
Benefiting breast cancer programs and services at the Stony Brook Cancer Center

Date: Saturday, August 2, 2025
Time: Noon - 10 pm
Location: Comiskey Park Bar, 485 Lake Ave, St. James, NY 11780

Info: silofoundation@gmail.com
Online Donations: zeffy.com/fundraising/2025-boobies

2025 Cancer Center Golf Classic
Benefiting Carol M. Baldwin Breast Cancer Research Fund, Inc., and the Cancer Scholars Program at Stony Brook Cancer Center

Date: Monday, September 15, 2025
Time: 11 am to 7 pm
Location: Westhampton Country Club, Westhampton Beach, NY

Information and to Register: www.cancer.stonybrookmedicine.edu/golf2025

Prostate Cancer Screenings - FREE

Early detection is key to long-term survival rates of prostate cancer. Stony Brook Medicine’s Department of Urology and Stony Brook Cancer Center offer free Prostate Cancer Screenings throughout the year, as part of our larger Prostate Care Program. In partnership with Stony Brook, Senator Dean Murray will host a screening this month.

Who Can Benefit: Men aged 45-75 years, African American men and men with a family history of prostate cancer may benefit from these screenings.

Date: Friday, May 16
Time: 12 pm to 5 pm

Location: Stony Brook Urology • 280 Union Avenue, Holbrook

Register: Appointments are strongly recommended. Insurance is not required.
To make an appointment, call (631) 216-9181.

Urban Air Adventure Park Lake Grove Community Partner in the Fight Against Cancer

Urban Air Adventure Park Lake Grove is proud to partner with the Stony Brook Cancer Center supporting blood cancer research to develop new, more effective, targeted treatments for cancer.

To Make a Donation:
cancer.stonybrookmedicine.edu/UrbanAirLG

Let's Talk About Breast Cancer

Stony Brook Cancer Center presents a conversation with our breast cancer experts
about current information regarding prevention, diagnostics, clinical trials and treatment
for this disease.

View on YouTube or Stony Brook Medicine Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter.

For appointments at the Carol M. Baldwin Breast Care Center,
call (631) SB-CANCER (722-2623).

For appointments in Radiation Oncology, call (631) 444-2200.

For appointments at The Phillips Family Cancer Center (Southampton),
call (631) SB-CANCER (722-2623).
For appointments at the Ellen Hermanson Breast Center (Southampton),
call (631) 726-8285.

Robotic-Assisted
Thoracic Cancer Surgery

Listen as our three cardiothoracic surgeons have an engaging conversation about the benefits of using robotic-assisted surgery to treat thoracic cancer, including lung cancer.

Stony Brook Cancer Center Physicians

Ankit Dhamija, MD
Cardiothoracic surgeon
Director, Robotic Thoracic Surgery

Allison McLarty, MD
Cardiothoracic surgeon
Director, Lung Cancer Program

Henry Tannous, MD
Cardiothoracic surgeon
Chief, Cardiothoracic Surgery Division

Best Treatment Options for Colorectal Cancer

At Stony Brook Cancer Center, we offer the latest protocols and treatments for colorectal cancers. We take a multidisciplinary team approach, ensuring coordinated care tailored to the needs of each patient. Join experts from Stony Brook Cancer Center as they discuss early detection, treatment options, and more. If you have questions about colorectal cancers, please enter them in the comments section, and our experts will do their best to address them throughout our live broadcast.

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Community Update on Lung Cancer (Online)

The Lung Cancer Team from Stony Brook Cancer Center invites you to a community education event to learn more about lung cancers, including prevention and screening methods. Presentations from our lung cancer experts will focus on the advances in diagnostics and treatments of these diseases at Stony Brook Cancer Center.

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Modern Radiation Therapy for Lung Cancer
Kartik Mani, MD, PhD

Lung Cancer Surgery
Allison J. McLarty, MD

Update on Lung Cancer Treatment
Amna Sher, MD, FACP

Community Update on Breast Cancer (Online)

The Breast Cancer Team from the Carol M. Baldwin Breast Care Center invites you to a community education event to learn more about breast cancer, including prevention and screening methods. Presentations from our cancer experts will focus on advances in diagnostics and treatments at Stony Brook Cancer Center. 

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Breast Conserving Surgery in Patients with
Breast Cancer: Obstacles and Opportunities
Brian O’Hea, MD, Director,
Carol M. Baldwin Breast Care Center

#End the Confusion
Krystal Airola, MD

Radiation Therapy for Breast Cancer
Alexander Stessin, MD, PhD

How to Make Cancer Treatments Work Better
Jules Cohen, MD

Community Update on Urologic Cancer (Online)

The Genitourinary Oncology Team invites you to a community education event to learn more about urologic cancers, including prevention and screening methods. Presentations from our cancer experts will focus on the advances in diagnostics and treatments of these diseases at Stony Brook Cancer Center.

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New Innovations in Bladder Cancer Care
John P. Fitzgerald, MD, MA, MSCi

Robotic-Assisted Surgery 
in Urologic Cancer
David M. Golombos, MD

Advances in the Use of Radiation Therapy
in Prostate Cancer
Alexander Slade, MD, PhD

Hematuria and Bladder Cancer
Massimiliano Spaliviero, MD